Valve mechanism for explosive-engines.



W. E. WILLIAMS.. vALvE MEcHANlsM Fon ExPLoSwE fammes.

APPLICATIoN FILED JULY l. 1913.

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VMVE MECHANISM FOR EXPLOSIVE INGINES.

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VALVE MECIIANISM FOR `EXILOSIVE ENGINES.

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W. E. WILLIAMS. VALVE MECHANISM Fon ExPLoslvE ENGLNES.

A/a am emi APPLICATION FILED JULY l, 19l3.

UiiiTED STATES PATENT oFFioE.

WILLIAM ERASTUS WILLIAMS, OF CHIC 4AGO, ILLINCDIS.

VALVE Mncrumsm Fon. ExPLosivii-FNGiNEs.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Beit known that" I, .WILLIAM Eiias'rns WILLIAMS, a citizen of the United States,

'residing atChicago, in the county of C ook and State of Illinois, with a post-oliice address atV 331 South Clinton street, have invented a new and useful Improvement in i axialsectibn through oie'cylinder, of a four piston.

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cylinder gas -engine embodying iny invention.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same engine, parts being brokenaway Vto show interioi' con-struction.-

Fig. 3 is a section on the broken line.

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Fig,V 1 4shows the lower end face of the .Figl 5 is a sideeleva-tion of the piston.

Fig. 6 shows, detached and slightly sepai-A rated, l certain sleeve members normally formingan extension of the piston. f

Fig. 7 shows the same pieces as seen from y below.

Fig. 8 shows the assembled parts ofthe piston, the point of view being 90", angularly', `frein the point of view selected for Figs. 9 'and 10 are, respectively, a 'plan view and a dametrical section of a pistonrotating gear. l

The apparatus illustrated-has four similar upright cylinders 13,.,-Figs 1 and 3, s upported above the body efe base 28, which extends under all the cylinders, by ineens of lugs or blocks 43 which extend upwird at intervals from the latter. .In each cylinder works a' rotary reciprocating piston 1 connected by a' crank rod9 to a crankshaft 27h mounted in the base 28 which forms the crank case.

VEach piston has at its upper end a tu-.'

billar extension 2 fitting closely in the cyl- Y nder andmade in two parts, as best seen in Figs. 6, 7,. each having at its lower ei'ifd .internal annular. ribs 49, to engage grooves in the body vofthe piston, and also projec-v tions which interlock when the, parts are Specilication of Letters Patent.

1together 4wth the annular portion Patented Feb. 2o, i917.

Applicetionilled fTuly 1, 1913. Serial e 776,787.

in place'. .lbove the ribs, Vthe halves or parts are .marginally out away, as shown iu Fig. 6, forning a slot 16,-sliown in dotted.

lines in Fig. 1,'-which .owing to'the rotation of the I iston opens and closes at proper times exhaust ports 1 4 and -inlet ports., .15.

The body of the piston isprovided with a tubular skir; f1 which is cut away at 5, Figs. 5, 8, on opi` osite sides leaving a lower annular portirn 6, Figs. 1, 4, 5, 8,- connected;

to the upper p'ortion by portions 7 which are grooved or .Slotted at 8, and the two slots of each skirt :re 4always engaged by projec tions 11 on a ring 12 having external gear teeth 22 that are constantly engaged by a silent drive chain 21. This chain incloses 'all the ringi and engages the teeth of each and is itseli.t driven from the crank shaft '27 by means of helical gears 25, 26, a ver- Con- 1 vement access to the chain is had by removt'ical shaft 21: and a sprocket wheel ing side cover plates 40, Figs. 1 2. "The chain and the rings lie iii the horizontal I plane ofthe cylinder .supporting projections 43, some of which, as seen iii Fig. 3,- lie within the path ot the chain and alongside thegeai'ed `ings, while others he outside that path. These blocks may be integral with the lia-:le or otherwise., but preferably those outsidei the path of the chain are removable so that the chain itseltl may be more readil:r removed when desired. The gears' are pr nvided wit annular flanges 41 which rotatf in bearings 28', Fig. 1, in the top'of the b se or crank case, while a simi lar lflange 43 rotates in like manner 'in a.

bearing in the lower end of the cylinder, and hence the ring, notwithstandin stress of the chain, always registers exact y with the interior of the cylinder so that the iston `moves freely in both cylinder and ring.4 It may be hf re noted that the blocks 43 prevent all vertical pressure upon tlie rings,

and that .the use of the latter while not in- A dispensable is preferred to having the chain engage the skirt directly. f

The hollow7` piston 1, show-n in Fig. 1 as in the position of maxin'nmi compression, 4is

dome-like above and y rovided with radiallateral ribs 4.8 in whic is secured an internally threaded sleeve 46.v

A hollow ball 45 is threaded upon the crank rod 9 and fits in a cup 47 screwed into the slee'e 46 and forming, at some distance below the dome, the upper half of a.

y bearing the lower portlon of which consists of a eor'respondin -member 44, .alsoscrewed into the sleeve an eut away centrally to receive the iston rod and allow it to'swing in action. 'his construction allows full access of oil to the-interior of the piston, with cooling effect, and the oil passes through apertures, not shown, in the cup 47 and keeps the joint perfectly lubricated.

The-two parts of the sleeve 2 which engages the piston by means ot' the ribs 49, press .against alarge area of the cylinder walls and practically perform the office of the usual piston rings with negligible fric- 4the''-lossjof'energy v'through rotating the pis- .-tongis not important.

."'Each of4 the cylinders is. encircled vby a .tionallo'ss 1Each of the two slots 16 serves alternately as an inlet port andjan exhaust lporls,-a,b. i2l'to obtain .the equivalent of four cycle-*valve action, the piston makes one fourth' o f 4arevolution for each 'full rotation yof. jthe'',erasmk shaft, whence it follows that sheet'mebtll jacket 29, forming a water space Whi'ehis divided on each side vif the cylin- 'a `vvallf 36; whereby the water is to circulate, passing upward and i :through the water spaces 5l inthe cylinder heads or eaps50, the water thus entering at 52ri'one`s1de and passing out at 53 o n' the p Osite side at the same level.

' `I`he exhaust pipes 17 and intake pipes 18 They' forni a rigid frame aboyt the-cylindersu (Figs. I1, .2, 3,) and are supported in rigid members or brackets' secured to the cylinders by bolts 37, 38 which also serve to clamp the jackets firmly between tlie brackets and, suitable bosses or projections .divided sleeve embracingthe cesses and corresponding n p connected with the ports on opposite?- ides of the cylinders, and. with anexhaustv v:pipe 19 anda carburetei-YQO, respectively.

A set of helical gears 31, '32 drives a cross shaft 33.for operating a pump, not shown, supported upon brackets 34, 35, Fig. l, and also for operating a magneto device, and ignition is effected by' a spark plug 39.-

W hat I'claim is:

1. The combination with fan lengine cylinder ha'vingsuitable ports and a piston working in said cylinder,A of a longitudinally having its meeting marglns which overlap the piston provided, respectively, with reprojections to fit in said recesses, for reventing leakage along the joint between tiie two margins.

2. The combination with a-thin walled hollow piston having at intervals ribs pro-.

jecting inwardly. from said walls, of a socket bearing held by said ribs at vsome distance from all said walls, and a pist'on rod provid- ,ed with a ball held in said bearing; whereby all the thin walls are in direct free 'com munication with lthe Space below. the Vopen endy of the piston.-

In witness whereof I have A hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of tvvosnb` scribing witnesses, in the city of Chicago,i

this .23 d ayof June, 1913.

' y WILLIAM ERASTUS WILLIAMS.

Y W'itnesses: f

'N'. M. HYBARGER, M, BROWN.

iston and. 

